Back in October I wrote a piece for The A.V. Club about the relationship between The Mama And The Papas’ “California Dreamin’” and Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express, which has changed somewhat since the whole “John Phillips is a consensual rapist” kerfluffle. “California Dreamin’” popped up again sans Phillips in Andrea Arnold’s fine 2009 coming-of-age drama Fish Tank, which screens next week at the Milwaukee Film Festival-Winter Edition. Arnold uses an awesome cover version of the song by Bobby Womack, which I’d never heard before but loved pretty much from the opening guitar strum. But Phillips is still creeping around in Fish Tank; to say how would quickly take us into spoiler-riffic territory. So I’ll just post the song and urge you to see the movie.
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